Pre-BUSH Origin: Rossdale and Pulsford met backstage at a club gig in London in December 92' and discussed common influences like the Pixies and Bob Marley.
Their Name: BUSH - named after the neighborhood suburb, Sherperd's Bush, where they were founded. Gavin also like the "shhhhh" sound at the end of Bush.
Former name: Future Primitive
Bands Headlined with: Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, Sonic Youth, Porno for Pyros, Veruca Salt, Jesus Lizard, The Souls and Moby most recently.
Longest session of Bush shows: Toured for a frantic 18 months since a short American club tour in January 95'

Song Sense
Bomb - "It's about this guy that was in a bombing in London, so this guy goes shopping, as in wanted to buy you shinny red things, and he gets blown up. Its how it affects his family and friends because for every person, every vicitim of a bomb there must be at least 30 people who are directly affected by it." - Gavin Rossdale

Comedown - "It's a moody song, it can mean alot of diffferent things to people, all the build up and alot of back downs and with the guitar I try to match the desperation in the voice of it." - Nigel Pulsford

Body - "It's about that really difficult question, and this is just the threat of it, the difficulty of having friendships with people without actually, um, just keeping them platonic, ya, keeping them platonic after awhile." - Gavin Rossdale

Testosterone - "It's about this poet who got into alot of trouble with girls and we figured this was a bad thing, so we deicided to write about." - Nigel Pulsford

Monkey - She disapeared off really, got really heavily into yoga. Started with yoga and pot and ended in goo-roos and hot coals and in very weird group activities." - Gavin Rossdale

Glycerine - "It's a very sad song, and with the strings on Glycerine you try to capture the saddness and the end piece was sorda inspired cause my father died when we started making the album and so I wrote a little end piece, sorda has a tribute, so we just tagged that on to the end of it." - Nigel Pulsford

X-Girlfriend - "Well, we found out we had like a spare of a half hour, instead of songs we just did it. Everybody arrived in the morning and they just had to play their parts one time and we just mixed it as it was, so in was quite instant." - Dave Parsons

BUSH bits
Most the tracks of Sixteen Stone were recored with just 3 members of the band. Nigel Pulsford couldn't attend the early sessions because his father was ill.

On Razorblade Suitcase: " It's not Sixteen Stone volume 2 by any stretch of imagination. We recorded more as a live unit, 'cause we've played on the road to two solid years." - Nigel Pulsford

There's actually 5 members to Bush now, I don't know of if its offical yet, but Sasha Puttman on keyboards who added all those nice touches to "The Science of Things".

The Bush men were house painters, not full-time, but it was one of their day jobs to keep them finanicially secure while searching for a label deal.

Sunny Ringo was a possible title for Razorblade Suitcase. "Run with the Hunted & "Flowering the Glow" were possibles titles for The Science of Things.

In England, a "stone" is a measurement of weight. Winston, Gavin's beloved dog, weighs in at 224 pounds which is 16 stones in England thus you get the name of their debut album, well maybe, I thought it was interesting.

Their first concert that kicked off the Sixteen Stone tour was at CBGB's in New York.

Weird Quotes From Others

"I love Gavin and his music. He's such a great singer. He's actually one of my favorite performers." - LeAnn Rimes

"Why should I hate him because he's beautiful? If he's got what the girlies like, I say he's good." - Sonny Chiba from the rap group Camp Lo

"He's a really lucky guy cause he's got the hot babe Gwen." - Fiona Apple

"We'd like to see him wear one of our jungle green shirts with a pair of longs johns, pink fuzzy bunny slippers and a backwards Mets baseball cap" - Eli and Mitch from EDMC clothing company

"He's got good taste, that boy" - Gwen Stefani of No Doubt